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What are you talking about?

How?

• Use a 3D modeler to create a... 3D model
  • This consists of a union of discrete elements.
  • Add textures, lighting effects, etc.
• Export this model in a language that the render understands
• Use renderer to create image of model.
  • Realize you screwed something up, repeat ad naseum.

Scenes

• Your 3D objects...
• Sky (sphere) and either a perfectly flat plane or a height mesh.

Animations

• A scene were objects are maniplated via timed effects
  • Raw eyeballing...
  • Spline based
• Povray renders scenes one frame at a time.

Tools

• Kpovmodeler
• Blender
• Povray
• Mjpeg toolkit (for creating clips)

Kpovmodeler

• KDE QT based 3D modeler specifically designed to work with povray.
  • Very featureful and visually configurable, though has a couple of kludgy spots.
    • Save often!!!
  • Outputs .pov files that are sensible.
    • vs. bicubic triangle objects that are hard to maniplate.
  • Layout is similar to Maya

Blender

• YA3DMP...
  • Very mature and featureful.
    • Newer version has been visually cleaned up
    • Has built in support for animation, logic, etc.
  • Exports to lots of formats, however not povray.
    • However, it does export to VRML which can then be converted to povray files. However, objects will be bicubic meshes.
    • Uses it's own renderer called “Yafray”

Povray

• Persistance Of Vision Ray Tracer
  • It slices, it dices, it makes juliette fries.
  • Very mature, featureful ray tracer.
  • Has more options then microsoft has security holes
  • However, it's animation interface is very primative.
    • Well maybe not primative, just hard to use.

.pov files...

• Language used by povray to render scenes
  • Human readable
  • Sensible